Thomas Musgrave

Thomas Musgrave (1737-31 December 1812) was a general of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Thomas Musgrave was born in 1737, the sixth son of Richard Musgrave and a daughter of John Hylton. He entered the British Army in 1754, and on 27 August 1776 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the British 40th Regiment of Foot following the death of its previous commander, James Grant, in Flatbush. Musgrave distinguished himself at the Battle of Germantown on 4 October 1777, and in 1778 he was sent to be Quartermaster-General of the British troops stationed on Saint Lucia to defend the island from France. While on sick leave he was promoted to Brigadier-General before being sent to New York City as the last commandant of British troops there, and he became Lieutenant-General of Stirling Castle and aide-de-camp to King George III of Britain upon returning home after the end of the American Revolutionary War. On 28 April 1790, he was promoted to Major-General and sent to India, but Charles Cornwallis disappointed him by not giving him a command during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. On 29 April 1802, he was made a full General, and he died in London at the age of 75 in 1812.